How does color, or the lack of it, create mood and atmosphere in Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis? Why did De Sica shoot the film in color? Why didn’t he just shoot the film in black-and-white?
Why do you think he did not mix color and black-and-white?
Explain the way directors consciously use colors to symbolically enhance the film’s dramatic content.
? Since earliest times, visual artists have used color for symbolic purposes. In general, cool colors (blue, green, violet) tend to suggest tranquility, aloofness, and serenity. Cool colors also have a tendency to recede in an image.
? Warm colors (red, yellow, orange) suggest aggressiveness, violence, and stimulation. They tend to come forward in most images.
? Black-and-white photography in a color film is sometimes used for symbolic purposes. Some filmmakers alternate whole episodes in black and white with entire sequences in color.
? The problem with this technique is its corny symbolism. The jolting black-and-white sequences are too obviously “significant” in the most arty sense. A more effective variation is simply not to use too much color, to let black and white predominate.
? In De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which is set in Fascist Italy, the early portions of the movie are richly resplendent in shimmering golds, reds, and almost every shade of green.
? As political repression becomes more brutal, these colors almost imperceptibly begin to wash out, until near the end of the film the images are dominated by whites, blacks, and blue-grays.
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